May 19, 2012 20:00
Arthur Schopenhauer
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."
"After your death you will be what you were before your birth."
"Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death."
"In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods."
Robert Anton Wilson
"An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave."
"Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame."
"Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different."
Max Stirner
"The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present."
"Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest."
"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."